痩
get thin
Readings
On'yomi
- ソウ
- チュウ
- シュウ
- シュ
Kun'yomi
- や.せる
Meaning
痩 centers on becoming thin or losing weight, often in the context of illness or wasting away.
Most common words using 痩
20 of 27- 痩せやせ
losing weight; slimming
- 痩せるやせるN4
to become thin; to lose weight; to slim
- 痩身そうしん
slim figure; slender body
- 痩せぎすやせぎす
skinny
- 痩せこけるやせこける
to get too skinny
- 痩せさらばえるやせさらばえる
to be emaciated; to be nothing but skin and bones
- 痩せすぎやせすぎ
too thin; underweight
- 痩せたやせた
thin; slim; skinny
- 痩せっぽちやせっぽち
skinny person; scrawny person; scarecrow; bag of bones
- 痩せても枯れてもやせてもかれても
even though one has fallen on hard times; however down on one's luck one may be
- 痩せの大食いやせのおおぐい
thin person who eats a lot; big eater who stays thin
- 痩せ土やせつち
barren soil
- 痩せ地やせち
barren soil
- 痩せ型やせがた
slender build; slender figure; leptosome; leptosomatic habit
- 痩せ山やせやま
barren mountain
- 痩せ男やせおとこ
skinny man; shabby-looking man
- 痩せ肉やせじし
emaciation; emaciated body
- 痩せ脛やせずね
thin leg
- 痩せ腕やせうで
thin arm
- 痩せ薬やせぐすり
weight-loss drug; slimming medicine; diet pill
Study
Etymology
痩 is the modern Japanese simplified form of 瘦. The older form combines 疒 (sickness) with 叟, which likely contributed the sound and the idea of wasting away. The modern simplification replaces the inner component with a simpler shape.
Meaning mnemonic
The sickness enclosure 疒 wraps around a thin, reduced inner shape, like a body wasting away from illness.
Reading mnemonic
For ソウ, imagine a person getting so thin they look like a soul (ソウ) leaving the body: soul -> ソウ, and the sickness enclosure shows the wasting away.